Please PRAY for our Mom Ellen,
Paul’s step-mum!
She has been battling with cancer for a couple of years and we
know many of you have been praying for her but we just really value special prayer for her right now as the effects of her
cancer are really escalating. We are so thankful that Jubab was able to spend Thanksgiving
with her last November and they had a really precious Grandma-Grandson time
together eating great food and crying together in sad movies.
Ever since Paul’s
Dad passed away 21 years ago, Mom Ellen has continued to be a really great Mom
to us. She’s visited us here in the Philippines and in Australia, been so
loving to us and especially to her grandkids, and built great memories with us through-out
the years. She’s such a brave and beautiful lady, and never complains.
Paul’s sister who’s over there with Mom Ellen right now, was
messaging us this morning that Mom had a very bad night last night. So our hearts and minds are very much over
there with Mom Ellen right now.
We’ve been praying for and with Inay this month as well. Inay
is our mother from Cauyunan.
During our very first days in the village of Cauyunan as brand
new missionaries and very young, inay and her husband took us under their wing
and protected us from people who didn’t want us there, shared meals with us and
took Paul into their hearts as one of their sons. That was twenty-nine years
ago! Inay has been a widow for quite a while now as Tatay has gone on ahead to
heaven, and many of the years since she was widowed she comes and stays with us
for a month or two at a time. She’s been here with us almost a month now, and
we hope she’ll stay for at least another month!
She went through a very stressful time last year with her
youngest son in prison (he has now been released) and she almost wasted away.
So we are thankful we have this time to encourage her and nourish her both
physically and spiritually.
Inay loves Paul and loves to boss him around even though she
is only a third of his size!
We’re currently working on Matthew chapter 17. Only 13 more
chapters left unwritten in Talaandig. The completion of the Talaandig New
Testament grows closer every day!
The Talaandig bible app is now available on iTunes!!!
This is a screen photo of the app on iTunes and it should be
easy to download if you are an iTunes person!
Already in the past two weeks we have had 20 of our brothers
and sisters over here in ministry being able buy new phones at a price they
could afford because of a huge discount the Lord provided for them and they are
now LOVING reading their bibles on their phones. We have twice already been
able to pass notes on the scriptures back and forth between different ones. And
in the next few weeks we are working on helping a lot more of the people in the
churches get phones up and going with the Talaandig Bible App.
